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River Ridge Living Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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100 Sandy Drive,
Amsterdam NY 12010

(518) 843-3503

88.08% estimated occupancy 1

River Ridge Living Center is an average-sized facility in Amsterdam, New York. Featuring an overall rating of D, this is a lower end facility. Keep in mind that Amsterdam received a city grade of B-, so should look at some other options in the city as well. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection score. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Dialysis Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Oncology Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This facilities next best category was long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Our long-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's amount of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinates 99.41003 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

The next area we graded is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Our nursing grade includes several data points. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this area.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

River Ridge Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In River Ridge Living Center, 11.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In River Ridge Living Center, 3.24% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A

In River Ridge Living Center, 0.3% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In River Ridge Living Center, 10.51% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In River Ridge Living Center, 16.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In River Ridge Living Center, 2.17% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could imply a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In River Ridge Living Center, 99.4% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In River Ridge Living Center, 22.87% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Many argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In River Ridge Living Center, 22.96% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In River Ridge Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In River Ridge Living Center, 22.96% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In River Ridge Living Center, 16.06% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In River Ridge Living Center, 75.23% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • St Mary's HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 1.23 miles away427 Guy Park Avenue Amsterdam New York 12010Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 841-7101
  • Nathan Littauer HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.99 miles away99 East State Street Gloversville New York 12078Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 725-8621
  • Ellis HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.43 miles away1101 Nott Street Schenectady New York 12308Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 243-4000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fms-Amsterdam Dialysis Center0.78 miles away1810 Riverfront Center Amsterdam New York 12010Dialysis Stations: 16 (518) 842-4360
  • Mohawk Valley Dialysis Center, Inc.1.93 miles away115 Towne Square Drive Amsterdam New York 12010Dialysis Stations: 15 (518) 627-0280
  • Gloversville Dialysis Center11.36 miles away46 Easterly Street Gloversville New York 12078Dialysis Stations: 13 (518) 725-4821
  • Fms-Capital District Dialysis Center17.17 miles away650 Mcclellan Street Schenectady New York 12304CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (518) 382-0202
  • Fms-Niskayuna Dialysis Center17.83 miles away2345 Nott Street East Schenectady New York 12309Dialysis Stations: 12 (518) 346-5186
  • Schenectady Partners LLC18 miles away1594 State Street Schenectady New York 12304CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (518) 382-5309